The aim of the study was analyzing predictive relations between reading strategies metacognitive awareness and problem posing skills seventh grade students. Within study, 373 students participated. data collected using “Metacognitive Awareness Reading Strategies Inventory” “Problem Posing Skills Test”. Through analysis data, simple linear regression used. As a result it determined that levels s...

Learning to read is one of the most important cognitive milestones in the human social environment. One of the most accepted models explaining such process is the Double-Route Cascaded Model. It suggests the existence of two reading strategies: lexical and sublexical. In the Spanish language there are some contradictions about how these strategies are applied for reading. In addition, there are...

This investigation sought to determine the role of cognitive word knowledge in metacognitive development. Subjects were fifth graders, seventh graders, tenth graders, and college undergraduates. Each subject completed a Likert scale self-report qWstiomuNire that measured the frequency of their metacognitive strategy use and a multiple-choice test that measured their cognitive word knowledge. Ac...

Reading skill plays an important role in the English education China especially when reading is tested on exam paper. Using a delayed retrospective questionnaire, this paper aims at eliciting EFL strategies from seven Chinese high school students. The results show that most of students are able to adopt cognitive strategies, their progress, such as memorizing, using background knowledge, underl...

This research investigated the relationship between reading maturity, strategy use, and gender with Iranian EFL undergraduates’ comprehension. The results revealed that most preferred strategies were cognitive in nature. Moreover, undergraduates intellectually enriched by of what they read enjoy materials teach them things did not know before. Also, it was found observable effect on interpretin...

A fundamental necessity at postgraduate level is a developed strategic reading skill that permits digesting tremendous amounts of technical academic content. The need is more paramount for EFL contexts and postgraduate students majoring in English Language Teaching (ELT) and English Literature (EL) most of whom will ultimately search a career in teaching.  The aim of the present ex-post facto s...

How does the literacy teacher negotiate the tensions between skills and social practice? Negotiation requires engaging with the debate in which literacy is seen as a set of discrete, transferable skills, dependent upon cognitive development, to the notion of literacies which are bound to social practice, and adapting teaching practices which align these two perspectives. Literacy teacher traini...

This study examines the relationship between both first language (L1) and second language (L2) reading attitudes, and learners' performance in L2 extensive reading. Four reading attitude variables were identified (Comfort, Anxiety, Value, Self-perception), both in L1 and L2, according to learners' responses to a questionnaire. Results of analyses using these four variables are summarised on two...

All geographers use andmay createmaps in their professional activities.While perceived by some asmerely tools to present spatial information, maps are actually complicated communication mechanisms. Many geographers spend tremendous amounts of time learning about verbal andwritten communication (how to speak, listen, read critically, and write effectively). But to many, one of the basic tools of...

ely perform complex cognitive tasks such as solving mathematics or reading comprehension problems. In this paper, we use an adaptive multiplayer perceptron model to categorize participants based on their metacognitive awareness and perceived use of reading strategies while reading. Eight hundred and sixty-five middle school students participated in the study. All participants completed a 30-ite...